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Extreme Cold Warning 1, NWS Blacksburg, VA

January 14, 2025Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this extreme cold warning at Jan 14, 2025, 3:20 AM EST for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 14, 2025, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 2025, 3:20 AM EST (08:20 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 14, 2025, 10:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 15, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA

County Greenbrier County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this extreme cold warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this extreme cold warning went out at Jan 14, 2:33 AM EST, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 2:33 AM EST, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 2:56 PM EST, 12 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 3:20 AM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, Carroll, Craig and 17 more	31 hr
Jan 14, 2:08 PM EST	Wind Advisory	RNK	Carroll, Floyd, Grayson, City of Galax	14 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.